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World
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Africa
2/4/2023 7:21:14 PM
Two young Orthodox Christians were killed in an attack on a church in southern Ethiopia on Saturday, according to a report by a religious media outlet.
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World
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Africa
2/2/2023 7:45:34 PM
Ethiopia's ancient Orthodox Church has accused the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of interfering in its affairs as tensions mount over a breakaway group of bishops.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/31/2023 4:39:04 PM
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church held earlier in the month their first-ever Christmas eve mass in Saudi Arabia for Coptic Egyptians and Eritreans residing in the country, according to the official publication of the church El-Keraza.
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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 9:52:33 AM
Pope Francis is opening a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has called a lingering ``colonialist mentality'' that still considers Africa ripe for exploitation.
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World
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Africa
1/30/2023 12:11:44 PM
It took years for Marie Louise Wambale to re-establish her life after fighting between M23 and the Congolese army forced her to flee with almost nothing more than a decade ago.
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World
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International
1/27/2023 6:56:18 PM
Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday for the funeral of the verger who was killed when an assailant attacked two churches in Spain as investigators probed the reasons for the deadly assault.
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World
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Region
1/26/2023 10:02:28 PM
The deadly church attack in Algeciras has rekindled Spanish concerns about the jihadist threat, which experts say is still present although the country has been relatively spared from attacks in recent years.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/26/2023 2:50:47 PM
The monitoring unit of Egypt’s leading Islamic authority Al-Azhar condemned on Thursday the deadly "terrorist attacks" against two churches in Spain the previous day, calling for increased security at places of worship to prevent a recurrence of such attacks.
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World
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International
1/26/2023 11:52:48 AM
The southern Spanish city of Algeciras was reeling Thursday, a day after a machete-wielding assailant stormed into two churches killing a verger and badly injuring a priest.
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World
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Region
1/23/2023 3:40:38 PM
A Lutheran church ceremony in Jerusalem on Sunday ordained the first Palestinian female pastor in the Holy Land.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
1/21/2023 2:42:00 PM
Dean of the Higher Institute of Folk Arts Mustafa Gad explains the Coptic contributions to Egyptian life on the occasion of the Feast of the Epiphany to Dina Ezzat
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World
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Africa
1/16/2023 7:14:30 PM
At least 14 people were killed in a church bombing in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend, an army spokesman said Monday, raising an earlier toll of 10 dead.
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World
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Africa
1/15/2023 7:28:14 PM
A bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 39 others after ripping through a church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, an attack blamed on suspected Islamists.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/7/2023 7:05:37 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin stood alone at a midnight service at a Kremlin church as he marked Orthodox Christmas darkened by Moscow's assault on Ukraine.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/7/2023 6:08:03 PM
Packing Kyiv's 1,000-year-old Lavra Cathedral for Orthodox Christmas, hundreds of worshippers heard the service in that church in the Ukrainian language for the first time in decades, a demonstration of independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/7/2023 12:06:09 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Friday told Egyptians not to worry while wishing a year of goodness, safety and security for all Egyptians and the whole world as he attended the Christmas mass ceremony held by the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/6/2023 4:38:32 PM
An uneasy calm in Kyiv on Friday was broken by air raid sirens that also blared out across the rest of Ukraine despite a Russian cease-fire declaration for the Orthodox Church Christmas that Ukrainian officials scorned.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/5/2023 5:05:37 PM
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church called Thursday for a 36-hour Christmas cease-fire in Ukraine at the end of this week, but his appeal looked unlikely to bring any breakthrough in halting the war that began nearly 11 months ago with Moscow's invasion.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
12/25/2022 6:48:14 PM
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World
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Region
12/25/2022 12:26:04 PM
The biblical town of Bethlehem marked a merry Christmas on Saturday, with thousands of visitors descending upon the traditional birthplace of Jesus as it rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic.
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